Intellectual and Cultural History Info

About 1/3 of the content on the AP Exam will cover information from this theme. This theme covers:

Changes in religious thought and institutions
Secularization of learning and culture
Scientific and technological developments and their consequences
Major trends in literature and the arts
Intellectual and cultural developments and their relationship to social values and political events
Developments in social, economic, and political thought, including ideologies characterized as "-isms," such as socialism, liberalism, nationalism
Developments in literacy, education, and communication
The diffusion of new intellectual concepts among different social groups
Changes in elite and popular culture, such as the development of new attitudes toward religion, the family, work, and ritual
Impact of global expansion on European culture